Community Resources
If you need safety, security and/or medical support, in this service area, you can call the SHCHC directly.
The safe consumption room and washrooms are currently unavailable at SHCHC. They continue to offer the following services:
- Primary Care – 8-5pm Monday- Friday
- Oasis Medical Clinic – 9-5pm Monday- Friday
- Drug Checking Services – 8am-8pm 7 days a week
- Access to harm reduction supplies – 8am-8pm – 7 days a week
- Drop in/Respite Services – 12 noon – 5 PM – Monday-Friday
- Client Access Team, Addictions and Mental Health Services and Intensive Case Management Services – 9-5pm – Monday-Friday
Referrals are being made to the following social service partners for safe consumption and washrooms:
| Safe Consumption Site and washroom locations | Days | Time |
| Ottawa Public Heath – Supervised Consumption Services 179 Clarence St. |
Monday to Friday | 9 am to 5 pm (last call 4:30pm) |
| Ottawa Inner City Health – ‘The Trailer’ at Shepherds of Good Hope 230 Murray St. |
7 days a week | 24 hours |
| Centre 454 – washrooms and drop in | 7 days a week | 8am-3pm
except Wednesdays – 8am -1pm |
In the News…
Ottawa News Items
March 2024
Councillor pitches website to track troublesome ‘frequent flyer’ properties | CBC News
Should Ottawa create a website for problematic properties? | Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan | Live Radio | CBC Listen
Dealing with ‘problematic properties’ (ctvnews.ca)
Downtown Ottawa is chafing under needles and crime (breakingneedles.com)
Somerset West centre opens temporary outdoor drug consumption site | Ottawa Citizen
Supervised injection site closures come amid spike in overdose calls | CBC News
Services strained with two supervised consumption sites closed | Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa overdose crisis: Supervised injection site at Sandy Hill CHC offline due to recent ‘health and safety issue’ | CTV News
Sandy Hill and Somerset West supervised injection sites suspended | Ottawa Citizen
Februrary 2024
Rattrapage du 28 février 2024 : Saison hivernale morose pour les stations de ski, et retour sur le conseil municipal spécial de Gatineau (radio-canada.ca) Commentaires de Conseillère Plante à 4 min. 20 sec.
Rattrapage du 28 février 2024 : Saison hivernale morose pour les stations de ski, et retour sur le conseil municipal spécial de Gatineau (radio-canada.ca) Commentaires de Louise Lapointe, Présidente de l’ACS, à 2 min. 08 sec.
As drugs overwhelm this downtown block, is safer supply the problem or the solution? | CBC News
Drug-paraphernalia debris a parent’s worst fear: mother
Toddler taken to hospital after putting needle in her mouth | CBC News
Growing concerns around the toxicity of the unregulated drug supply | City of Ottawa / Préoccupations croissantes au sujet de la toxicité de l’approvisionnement en drogues non réglementées | Ville d’Ottawa
Have your say on the City of Ottawa’s draft Waste Plan | City of Ottawa / Partagez vos réflexions sur la version provisoire du Plan de gestion des déchets de la Ville d’Ottawa. | Ville d’Ottawa
Overdose crisis: 22 suspected overdose deaths in Ottawa in January | CTV News
Building a path to stability: new transitional housing to help 170 unsheltered families | City of Ottawa / Tracer une voie vers la stabilité : de nouveaux logements de transition pour aider 170 familles non hébergées | Ville d’Ottawa
Animal tranquilizer in street drugs raises alarms | CBC News
January 2024
City opens overflow beds in Britannia as downtown shelters fill up | CBC News
December 2023
Keys, phone, naloxone: In downtown Ottawa, the antidote to opioid overdoses has become an item some people won’t leave home without – The Globe and Mail
Two Ottawa health centres to deliver ‘safer alternate response’ pilot | Ottawa Citizen
State of emergency declared in Pikwakanagan due to opioid crisis | Ottawa Citizen
November 2023
Does Ottawa need a safe inhalation site for drug users? | Ottawa Citizen
Downtown drop-in centre hopes washroom sensors help prevent overdose deaths | CBC News
Inhaling drugs surpasses injections in Ottawa, and experts want new tools to fight it | CBC News
How Ottawa’s public health unit wants to fight the fentanyl crisis | Ottawa Citizen
October 2023
The human side of Ottawa’s fentanyl crisis | CBC News
She called 911 during a break-in scare, but says the operator left her feeling helpless | CBC News
September 2023
What’s really in Ottawa street drugs? New machines will find out | CBC News
Sandy Hill daycare closes citing safety concerns | CBC News
National News Items
March 2024
B.C. Auditor General finds two harm reduction programs ineffectively implemented – My East Kootenay Now
‘Deficiencies’ in overdose prevention programs: auditor general | CBC News
Housing and homelessness in Finland – Vancouver Island Mental Health Society
No evidence of widespread diversion of B.C. safe-supply drugs: Officials and RCMP | Globalnews.ca
B.C. premier downplays safe-supply diversion concerns | CTV News
Prince George RCMP drug seizures ignite safe supply debate | CBC News
Opiate from BC’s ‘safe supply’ being sold by organized crime: RCMP | National Post
Februrary 2024
Alberta’s request to introduce new tracking method for safer drug supply rejected by Ottawa | CBC News
A surge in open drug use has sparked difficult debates in cities across Canada – The Globe and Mail
Red Deer council passes motion asking province to close overdose prevention site | CBC News
Neighbours suing supervised injection site linked to fatal shooting of Toronto mother | National Post
Tent encampments result of ‘persistent failures’ of government: federal advocate | National Post
Un opioïde « 25 fois plus puissant que le fentanyl » inquiète les autorités sanitaires | Radio-Canada
NP View: The safer supply farce is unravelling | National Post
B.C. acknowledges problems with safe supply, looks to expand it anyway | National Post
Stem the diversion ‘catastrophe’ by making safe supply drugs traceable | National Post
BC knows “safer supply” isn’t working. They’re expanding it anyway | National Post
January 2024
Court’s shaky logic puts open drug use above rights of general public | National Post
Eby underscores ‘fundamental’ disagreement with B.C. chief coroner on safe supply | CBC News
Itinérance à Lachine | « La présence, c’est de la prévention » | La Presse
December 2023
Whitehorse’s downtown safety plan promises much, but some wonder if it will deliver | CBC News
Yukon gov’t to decentralize some support services downtown, as part of safety response plan | CBC News
September 2023
Harm reduction missionaries block my community’s path to safety | National Post